Watching them come and go 
The Templars and the Saracens 
They're travelling the holy land 
Opening telegrams 
 
Torture comes and torture goes 
Knights who'd give you anything 
They bear the cross of Coeur de Leon 
Salvation for the mirror blind 
 
But if you pray  
all your sins are hooked upon the sky 
Pray and the heathen lie will disappear 
Prayers they hide 
the saddest view 
(Believing the strangest things, 
loving the alien) 
 
And your prayers they break the sky in two 
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) 
 
You pray til the break of dawn 
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) 
 
And you'll believe you're loving the alien 
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) 
 
Thinking of a different time 
Palestine a modern problem 
Bounty and your wealth in land 
Terror in a best laid plan 
 
Watching them come and go 
Tomorrows and the yesterdays 
Christians and the unbelievers 
Hanging by the cross and nail